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Author : William Henry Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Speeches, addresses, etc., American
ISBN : OCLC:1251805109
Author : William Henry Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Oklahoma
ISBN : IND:30000084074768
Author : William Henry Murray,A. L. Beckett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1494055376
This is a new release of the original 1931 edition.
Author : Keith L. Bryant
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806154398
William H. (Alfalfa Bill) Murray is the most important figure in the political history of Oklahoma. No other individual contributed so greatly to the formation of its political institutions—and there was never a more colorful or controversial character on the state’s political scene. Flamboyant, unpredictable, and stubborn, Alfalfa Bill became a legend. President of the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention, speaker of the first House of Representatives, two-term congressman, and governor of Oklahoma, the Texas-born Murray made an indelible mark on his adopted state. But he also made enemies. During the struggle for statehood he waged a hard battle over the constitution, taking on President Theodore Roosevelt and Secretary of War William Howard Taft. As Oklahoma governor, Murray challenged the oil industry, newspaper interests, and the state of Texas. To enforce his programs, he relied on the National Guard. While governor, Murray called out the guard forty-seven times for duties ranging from policing ticket sales at University of Oklahoma football games, to patrolling oil fields, to guarding the Red River Bridge during the infamous Bridge War with Texas. In 1932 he ran for the Democratic nomination for president, and his fame spread across the nation. When candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt offered a program for national recovery, Murray countered with “Bread, Butter, Bacon, and Beans.” In describing Murray’s frustrated efforts to preserve the agricultural American of the nineteenth century, Bryant has written a perceptive biography presenting the first clearly defined portrait of this determined but inflexible man.
Author : Robert L. Dorman
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806162201
In this masterful biography, Robert L. Dorman traces the career of William H. “Alfalfa Bill” Murray from his hardscrabble childhood in post–Civil War Texas to his remarkable ascendancy as a nationally known political figure in the mid-twentieth century. The first comprehensive portrait of Murray to be published in fifty years, Alfalfa Bill is both the exploration of a larger-than-life personality and an illuminating account of the birth of political conservatism in Oklahoma. As Dorman reveals, no political label readily fit Murray. The core conservatism of his Texas years was caught up in the ferment of three major periods of American reform—the Populist uprising, the Progressive Era, and the New Deal. Over his long career, Murray strongly advocated for states’ rights, limited government, and strict constitutionalism, yet he was also a consistent foe of corporations and concentrated wealth. The society he sought was small-scale, decentralized, agrarian—and racially segregated. Although he claimed to represent high principles, Murray as a politician was an opportunist, loved a good fight, had a flair for the theatrical, and hungered for power. Dorman depicts Murray from his days as a political operative in the Chickasaw Nation to his leadership of the Oklahoma Constitutional Convention, and from the Speaker’s chair of the Oklahoma legislature to the halls of Congress. The book follows Murray’s quixotic attempt to found an agricultural colony in Bolivia, and chronicles his amazing Oklahoma comeback in the 1930 gubernatorial election. The final chapters detail Murray’s legendary term as state governor, his failed candidacy for president, and his emergence as a fierce critic of New Deal liberalism and racial desegregation. Unlike earlier biographies of Murray, Alfalfa Bill brings issues of race, class, and gender to the forefront, often in surprising ways. On the surface, the Murray saga was an American success story, yet his rise came at a price for Murray himself, his family, and the people of the state he helped to create. An indelible portrait emerges of an ambitious, domineering, relentless, and unapologetically racist figure whose tarnished legacy seems painfully relevant in America’s current political climate.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 2934 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105063357318
Author : William Henry Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 866 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Oklahoma
ISBN : UOM:39015027812935
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 712 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Union catalogs
ISBN : UOM:39015082988133
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 854 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Copyright
ISBN : UCAL:B3458512
Author : B.A. Botkin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-02-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000679472
This stimulating anthology, prepared by the great folklorist, B.A. Botkin, is comprised of the traditional songs, stories, customs, and beliefs which have been handed down, by word of mouth, for so long that they seem to have a life of their own. For Botkin, they are at the core of peoplehood. When one thinks of American folklore one thinks not only of the folklore of American life, the traditions that have sprung up on American soil, but also of the literature of folklore, the migratory traditions that have found a home in the New World.
Author : William Henry Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Theater
ISBN : IND:30000118153125
Author : Library of Congress
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1322 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015078262444
Author : Roger Geiger
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 1412825288
Author : Paul Schullery
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07-28
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780811751650
In essays sometimes controversial, sometimes reflective, all fascinating, Paul Schullery ruminates on the evolution of fly fishing.
Author : University of Oklahoma. Western History Collections
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 0806134739
The University of Oklahoma's Western History Collections were established in 1927 to gather and preserve records for scholarly research in anthropology, Native American studies, Oklahoma history and the history of the American West. This guide describes manuscript collections which include papers from pioneers and later prominent citizens including businessmen, educators, Native American leaders, historians and anthropologists. The manuscripts cover a variety of subjects such as cowboys and the cattle industry, the Five Civilized Tribes, frontier life, missionaries in Indian Territory, the oil industry and the history of transportation in the West.
